Observation of $D^0$ meson decays to ${\pi }^{+}{\pi }^{-}{\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-}$ and $K^{+}{K}^{-}{\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-}$ final states

Abstract

The first observation of the $D^0\to {\pi }^{+}{\pi }^{-}{\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-}$ and $D^0\to K^{+}{K}^{-}{\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-}$ decays is reported using a sample of proton-proton collisions collected by LHCb at a center-of-mass energy of 8TeV, and corresponding to 2fb${}^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity. The corresponding branching fractions are measured using as normalization the decay $D^0\to K^{-}{\pi }^{+}[{\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-}{]}_{{\rho }^0/\omega }$, where the two muons are consistent with coming from the decay of a ${\rho }^0$ or $\omega$ meson. The results are $\mathcal{B}(D^0\to {\pi }^{+}{\pi }^{-}{\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-})=(9.64\pm 0.48\pm 0.51\pm 0.97)\times 10^{-7}$ and $\mathcal{B}(D^0\to K^{+}{K}^{-}{\mu }^{+}{\mu }^{-})=(1.54\pm 0.27\pm 0.09\pm 0.16)\times 10^{-7}$, where the uncertainties are statistical, systematic, and due to the limited knowledge of the normalization branching fraction. The dependence of the branching fraction on the dimuon mass is also investigated.

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